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Accessibility

Information from the Food Standards Agency is for everyone, regardless of ability, age, language or background. We are committed to ensuring our digital services are accessible to the widest possible range of people.

Our broad principles are as follows:

The site aims to achieve overall compliance with the Web Accessibility Initiative’s (WAI) guidelines, to meet priority 2 (AA) standards, and aims to conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

We aim to ensure our websites can be used and work well with assistive technologies, such as software that reads pages aloud.

We will test sites across browsers to ensure they degrade gracefully and work on older browsers.

We will monitor site performance to ensure that people on slower connections can access our site.

We conducted user testing for accessibility during the development of the site, and we intend to involve users with a variety of disabilities in any future user testing we carry out on our websites.

Looking for new innovative ways of offering rich media in an accessible way.